VOCE Chorale Concert Planned for St. Alban's Dec. 18

Community Contributor KAREN WILLIAMS

The Hartford-based professional choral group Voce will be coming to Simsbury for a holiday seasonconcert on Friday, Dec. 18th. The performance will be held at Saint Alban's Church onBushy Hill Road beginning at 8:00 pm. Joining Voce will be Primi Voci, the newest and mostadvanced choir for treble voices in the Connecticut Children's Chorus.

A reception for singersand attendees will follow the performance in the fellowship hall at Saint Alban's.Voce was founded in 2005 by Mark Singleton and Thomas Cooke and has come to berecognized as one of the finest choral groups in New England. The group's performers comefrom all over the northeast and regularly perform at Immanuel Congregational Church onWoodland Street in Hartford. This season they will be performing in venues other than theirtraditional home base at Immanuel, including the Dec. 18th performance at Saint Alban's - thefirst of three satellite performances that they will be holding during their 2015 - 2016 season.The group's leaders, Thomas Cooke and Mark Singleton, are looking forward to theperformance in Simsbury. Cooke is Director of Administrative Services for the Town of Simsburyand the performance at Saint Alban's gives him the opportunity to engage with the community ina new and entirely different way. Creative director Mark Singleton recently moved to Simsbury,so he is excited to share his passion and talents with the community. Singleton notes that Vocewill be highlighting Simsbury High School's top choral group at Voce's March concert.Voce will also be performing their holiday concert the following night of Saturday, Dec. 19th at7:30 pm in their home venue of Immanuel Church. The group also will be holding fourperformances in the spring, two each in February and April. For more information on Voce andtheir 2015 - 2016 season, visit the group's website at www.voceinc.org.

Corporate sponsors of the 2015 -2016 season of Voce are Simsbury Bank and Trust, Harveyand Lewis Opticians, Goldman Sachs, Seabury Retirement Community and SKY InvestmentGroup.

St. Alban's Episcopal Church is located at 197 Bushy Hill Road, Simsbury. The churchsits on 12 partially wooded acres and welcomes visitors for walking, trail running, orotherwise enjoying the land. All are welcome to worship at their Sunday service at 9a.m. More information about St. Alban's is available by visiting their websitewww.StAlbansSimsbury.org or by calling the church office at 860-658-0406

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